At 4:25 p.m. Friday local time, 123 tourists from China's Wuhan City boarded a chartered flight in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, where they were stranded amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The flight, a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane, was operated by China's XiamenAir and will take the tourists back to Wuhan.

Crew members will be put under isolation observation for 14 days after the mission.